A44344:1105
A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened…
A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union believers have with God and Christ, and the glorious privileges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nigh.A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union beleevers have with God and Christ, and the glorious priviledges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If God give Glory to Christ, how unreasonable is it for us sinful wretches, to deny our Saviour his own, his due? If the Father give it; we should be ready, and careful ever to acknowledge it. We do not the work of Angels, but the work of God himself. And this is the Scope of the Father in all his Counsel, and therefore it should be ours. He turns the Trade this way; The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment to the Son, that all men might honour the Son, as they honour the Father, John, 5.22, 23. As great Princes, when they will advance any Person, whom they purpose to make a Favourite, they so contrive that all business must come through his hand, that all may eye him, honour him, and have dependence upon him. So it is with the Father: Christ is his Favourite, he hath so ordered it, that all must come through his hand, all from the Father by him, all through him returned to the Father. So the Father professeth, Phil. 2.10, 11. He hath given him a Name above all Names, that at his Name, all might bow. As therefore the Father determined, ⟨p. 343⟩mined, so we resolve: I have both glorified him, and will glorify him, John, 11.28.
If God give Glory to Christ, how unreasonable is it for us sinful wretches, to deny our Savior his own, his due? If the Father give it; we should be ready, and careful ever to acknowledg it. We do not the work of Angels, but the work of God himself. And this is the Scope of the Father in al his Counsel, and therefore it should be ours. He turns the Trade this way; The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment to the Son, that all men might honor the Son, as they honor the Father, John, 5.22, 23. As great Princes, when they wil advance any Person, whom they purpose to make a Favorite, they so contrive that all business must come through his hand, that al may eye him, honor him, and have dependance upon him. So it is with the Father: Christ is his Favorite, he hath so ordered it, that al must come through his hand, al from the Father by him, al through him returned to the Father. So the Father professeth,